SPRINGFIELD - Police are searching for a person who forced a passenger out of an idling car and took the vehicle around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.

The carjacking happened at a gas station at 560 State St., police said. The driver had left the car to go inside the store and the assailant approached the passenger, threatened him with a weapon and forced him out of the car, Springfield police Lt. John M. Bobianski said.

The stolen car is a red 1998 Honda Accord. The assailant was described as a Hispanic man who is thin, about 6 feet tall and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.

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